A subtle web of superstition and the supernatural, and what happens when you break tapu. When an out-of-it Billy Delaney steals coins from a rock pool to buy a burger, he has no idea what he is about to unleash. But then Billy has always been trouble, and when his sister Saffron steps in to try and sort him out, trouble swarms over the Delaneys like bees over a honey pot. First Saffron's niece suffers an horrific accident, leaving her balanced precariously between life and death. And then the Delaneys begin to die. It's left to a disbelieving Saffron and an unlikely ally - Nick, a burnt-out war photographer trying to piece his shattered life back together in a quiet country backwater - to try to appease the wrath of Tama Ariki, whose quest for utu echoes down the centuries. Set in and around Lake Taupo, Dawn Rotorangi's first novel explores the shadows between two worlds - the living and the dead; Maori and Pakeha; past and present - in a groundbreaking paranormal adventure.